Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

- Mumford, Lewis

Best Quotes about Life

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

13.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.